DON’T FORGET BILL WALSH’S OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
In addition to once dressing up as a bell boy and greeting his team at the door of their hotel once, Bill Walsh should also be remembered for his pioneering work in another important field: video game football.
It was a far piece better than Sega’s “College Football National Championship,” mostly because it was simpler and you couldn’t win every game by running the toss sweep with Jerome Bettis. (Damn you, Cuddles Swindle. Damn you and Jerome to hell.) You got scouting reports from Bill on each team. You got 360 degrees of replay. You got, as you might have guessed, glorious amounts of passing yards. And of course, it also featured, per video game rules of engagement, an unstoppable Bo Jackson bent on destroying the world with his cleats.
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Ah, the memories. A 78-78 tie with my roommate between Auburn ‘83 and Michigan ‘92 (Wheatley left and right with a few Grbac to Alexander passes thrown int.) The defensive struggles between Alabama ‘92 and Texas ‘81 (the two best defenses in the game). FSU ‘92, which combined the joys of Marvin Shade Tree Jones covering the entire field with the joys of running the fastbreak offense (”look, I can call an audible and cause FSU to shift from the I to the shotgun, just like in real life!”) and having a QB who could run and throw. The fact that Stanford was inexplicably good in the game. (OK, it was quite explicable.) The handy dandy cards listing the ratings for each player.
I didn’t get laid much my freshman year. Can you tell?
Comment by Michael — July 31, 2007 @ 1:11 pm